Story Category: Delphi
VOTEGetting Data From Anywhere, part 1
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 2006 introduced enumerators – a way to iterate any kind of collection with the for-in loop. And the VCL is chock-full of enumerators: TStrings has one, so do TComponent, TWinControl, TList, TObjectList and the… … Read more
15 years ago in anonymous methods, Delphi, enumerators, events, the-beatles
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When you install Delphi 2010, put it in a virtual machine
Sean
I recently compared the performance of virtual machines with the real hardware. The figures were suprisingly good.Shortly after that, disaster struck. My laptop wouldn’t turn on. It took Dell 2 weeks to fix, replacing the… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, virtual box, virtual machines, vmware
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Better than you’ve been told…
Cobus Kruger
Strangely, the Delphi 2010 hype machine have slowed down somewhat as we got closer to release date. But I just had my first full day with the new IDE and it’s good. The installer, I… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 2010, Review
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Delphi’s broken bookmarks
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 2009’s blue chip features were Unicode support, generics and anonymous methods. Most developers expected Unicode support to be the one to introduce the bulk of the migration headaches. But as with most Delphi versions,… … Read more
15 years ago in bookmarks, Delphi, getbookmark, tdataset, virtual treeview
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Delphi Services and Localization Issue
Fletch
About five months ago I was called in to look into an localization issue affecting one of our software products. The software in case is a Windows Service written in Delphi. This service is used… … Read more
15 years ago in Bizarre, Code Detective, Delphi, Delphi Programming, Local, Windows Service
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Delphi Services and Localization Issue
Fletch
About five months ago I was called in to look into an localization issue affecting one of our software products. The software in case is a Windows Service written in Delphi. This service is used… … Read more
15 years ago in Bizarre, Code Detective, Delphi, Delphi Programming, Local, Windows Service
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Go see Delphi 2010
Roland Beenhakker
The first Delphi 2010 sneak peek video’s showed up on the Internet. The first sneak peek shows some new IDE features like IDE insight, an everywhere context sensitive IDE navigation system. Anders Ohlsson has a… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi
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D2007 and large text files
Marshall Fryman
Has anyone noticed that Delphi 2007 cannot append to a text file over 2GB in size? I freely admit that I had a problem in my code that created log files that large in the… … Read more
15 years ago in Coding, Delphi
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Debunking the Delphi 7 Myths
Cobus Kruger
In my last post on why you really should upgrade from Delphi 7, I seem to have upset a number of people. Some were very angry, some were moderate. Some were eloquent. Most of them… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 7, drunken-philosophy, Opinion Piece, reasons-to-upgrade
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Why you really should upgrade from Delphi 7
Cobus Kruger
Delphi 7 is probably the most popular version of Delphi that has ever shipped. So much so that several developers staunchly stand by their favourite of many years and refuse to move up. But Delphi… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, delphi 7, drunken-philosophy, Opinion Piece, reasons-to-upgrade
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Hellishly Horrible Hack #1: Changing an object’s functionality without recompiling
Cobus Kruger
Yup, you read that right. This one comes with a big disclaimer. It’s been tested and works but don’t read on if you are squeamish. The set-up is like this: We have an application that… … Read more
15 years ago in copy, Delphi, hack, Horrible Hacks, managed-types, move, object, object-variables, virtual-method-table, vmt
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Translating flags in API calls, part 2
Cobus Kruger
As promised, this is part 2 of my article on translating flags in API calls. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, please do so now. Sometimes, you get API calls that make real hefty… … Read more
15 years ago in api-import, Delphi, enum, enumerated-type, set
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